Hi everyone, We just noticed that everytime a pull request gets merged with the "Squash and merge" button, GitHub drops the original authorship information and changes "authored" to whoever merged the PR.
We found this happened in #11102 [1] and #11302 [2]. It seems that it is a long outstanding issue and GitHub is aware of it but doesn't make an attempt to fix it [3][4]. Before this behavior, "authored" is the original author and "committed" is the one who merged the PR, which was pretty good to record the contributor's contribution and the committed information. >From the perspective of contributors, it’s really frustrated if their authorship information gets lost. Considering we don't know when GitHub will fix it, I propose to disable "Squash and merge" button (and also "Rebase and merge" button) before it is fixed. However, I'm not sure how to disable it. Can it be disabled by GitHub UI if who has administrator permission? Or .asf.yaml [5] is the right way? What do you think? Best, Jark [1]: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/11102 [2]: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/11302 [3]: https://github.com/chdsbd/kodiak/issues/300#issuecomment-595016815 [4]: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1750 [5]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/.asf.yaml+features+for+git+repositories#id-.asf.yamlfeaturesforgitrepositories-Mergebuttons
